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Sentence Examples
Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.
Examples from Classical Literature
The vocabulary of praise has been so completely exhausted by the newspapers, that I am fairly at a nonplus for terms where with to panegyrize this unequalled meeting.
This reply seemed to nonplus us all with the exception of Maitland and Godin.
The idea at the bottom of the piece is that the devil will carry off the wee boy if he can nonplus him.
Never having been paid such an attention in all my life before, I felt rather at a nonplus.
Mr. and Mrs. Accleton were at somewhat of a nonplus as to the most feasible means of procuring the attendance of Sally.
They were put to a nonplus, and summoned the Devil to their relief.
The inquiring mind is at a nonplus, and is likely to remain so.
Phonny was put quite to a nonplus by this unexpected answer.
Peter was puzzled, and scratched his ear like a man at a nonplus.
Minister Karadzhova went nevertheless on to nonplus journalists and environmentalists by saying that the government could do nothing against that.
